Pedro de la Cruz stands beside his stranded boat and supplicates his God, lifting his arms and praying anxiously for rain to replenish Lake Titicaca, the massive body of water at a breath-sapping altitude in the Andes on ...
Environment
Aug 15, 2023
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Two concepts—acquisition and learning—play key roles in the study of language. Although there are people who use the two terms interchangeably, in reality they embody two different processes in the development of communicative ...
Social Sciences
Aug 3, 2023
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English serves as a convenient, common language for science. However, this practice poses insurmountable barriers to those whose first language is not English—the majority of people around the world.
Social Sciences
Jul 18, 2023
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Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you're looking for work.
Social Sciences
Jun 22, 2023
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Get down from the car. If this expression doesn't sound familiar, you're probably not from Miami.
Social Sciences
May 11, 2023
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When the main character of a kids TV show can both listen and respond to viewers by using advances in artificial intelligence, youngsters learn more from the program. That's what my colleagues and I found in a series of peer-reviewed ...
Education
May 2, 2023
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Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different languages found that tonal speakers are better ...
Social Sciences
Apr 26, 2023
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Research in languages other than English is critically important for biodiversity conservation and is shockingly under-utilized globally, according to an international research team.
Environment
Mar 17, 2023
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People who speak more than two languages are more likely to mistakenly use words from the language they're least proficient in, new research has shown.
Social Sciences
Feb 16, 2023
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Half of the world's languages are endangered and more than a thousand are expected to be lost in coming decades. A team at UCL is using animation software to preserve these languages in an entirely new way.
Social Sciences
Jan 26, 2023
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